"Because wars are started not by abstract "forces" nor by ideological constructs floating in mid-air, but by individuals – not corporate entities, but specific government officials, their advisers and employees... The question of how and why we were lied into war is a matter of fact, not ideology. Abstract "forces" had nothing to do with it: specific individuals carried out specific acts. The misinformation that was deliberately planted was produced not by decaying capitalism, but by the decayed moral sense of certain government officials."They both make the same point that i've been making - the iraq invasion (and the rest of the crimes of the egadministration) had more to do with actions by individuals, presumably for personal reasons.
As xymphora says:
"Their personal interests – money, power, and, yes, Israel – were more important to them. This is the way the real world works. It’s all a conspiracy."At times, I've tried to find the bridge between the military-industrial-complex and the personal interests - and it's kinda difficult to see exactly how everything lines up. Undoubtedly there were massive institutional forces in play, but it was individuals who 'ignited the sparkplugs' - not for oil, not for geopolitics, not for empire (in any meta-sense).
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